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 ( 7 ) the woo‘ aff t, and make fifh and fauce o’t to my Tammys parich : No, no, fald witty Eppie. bet- ter gie't to my Lord, and he‘ll ftap an iron ftick thro' the guts o’t and gar't rin round afore the fire till it be roafted: Na, na faid wife Willy, we’ll nae do that indeed, for my Lord would mak us a’ dogs and gar us rin thro’ the kintry feeking maukins till him. It happened on a dark winter morning, that two of the wives were going to Dyfart to fell their fifh, ans near the road fide there happened to be a tinker’s nfs teddered, and the poor afs feeing the wives com-

ing with their creels, thought it was the tinkers oom- ing to fit or removie him. fell a crying the two wives threw their fifh away and ran home like mad perfons crying they had feen the de’il, aye the very horned de’il, ne that he had fpoken to them, but they did not ken what he faid, for it was worfe words then a highlander s; the whole town was in an uproar, fome would go with picks and fpades, to hack him in pieces, others would catch him in a ftrong net, and then they could either hang or drown him. Na, na, co wife Witty, we manna caft out wi’ him at the firft as he’s gotten twa burden o’ 'fifh he’ll ablens gan, his wa'an no fafh na'e mair ; he’s o’er fouple to be